This is what I understand on how ETS work vis-a-vis mutual funds:
If I buy an ETF (SPY), then the ETF trust fund does not take my money and go out and buy the underlying stocks.
I buy one share of SPY ...

Say you have a retirement goal of $1 million and reach it by investing a stock. If you want to rebalance and move this money to something safer, say bonds, will this exchange cost you capital gains + ...

There are very cool tools offered in this answer here. One of them is this here that allows you to see SD and return in rebalanced portfolio over longer time periods. Now I am trying to compare the ...

For doing a re-balance of a portfolio, is it a better idea to just buy more of the under allocated assets or sell some over allocated assets to buy the under allocated assets.
For my background, 28 ...